Welcome to January 21st, a date that has witnessed remarkable events across the globe. Before we delve deeper into more historical events, let’s ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland ...

Gilbert du Mortier, better known to many as the Marquis de Lafayette, was a key figure in the American Revolution. In 1824 and 1825, Lafayette returned to tour the United States, and he was met with a ...

Students could plan and create a comic book narration of the events of the French Revolution. Students could be asked to note the causes of the French Revolution and the aims of its proponents.

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...